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sublunar, a. and n.|sʌbˈl-, səˈbl(j)uːnə(r)|
[ad. mod.L. sublūnār-is (cf. late Gr. ὑποσέληνος, ὑποσελήνιος): see sub- 1 a and lunar. Cf. F. sublunaire, etc.]
A. adj.
1. = sublunary A. Now rare.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. iv. (1611) 94 Those cœlestiall creatures..being void of this corrupt mixture which is found in all creatures sublunar. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 777 Now had night measur'd with her shaddowie Cone Half way up Hill this vast Sublunar Vault. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 85. 3/1 That all Sublunar Joys duration want. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam v. i, The City's moonlit spires and myriad lamps, Like stars in a sublunar sky did glow. a1857D. Jerrold John Applejohn iv, To expire covered over with wounds was the only really desirable way of going out of this sublunar world.
2. Navigation and Astr. Applied to a point on the surface of the earth which lies on a line joining the centre of the moon and the centre of the earth, i.e. a point at which the moon is vertically overhead.
1938P. V. H. Weems Air Navigation (ed. 2) xvi. 263 The geographical position of a heavenly body is the point on the earth's surface that has the body in its zenith; in other words the substellar, subsolar, or sublunar point. 1971Nature 31 Dec. 537/2 Most large earthquakes occur after the epicentral region has passed the sublunar or subsolar point.
†B. n. = sublunary B. Obs.
1613Campion Relat. Roy. Entert. Descr., View these heau'n borne Starres, Who by stealth are become Sublunars. 1684J. Gadbury (title) Cardines Cœli: or, an appeal to..observers of sublunars and their vicissitudes. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. iii. 180 The moon could claim no interest upon her Vicinity to us Sublunars. |